Francesco Siclari

Francesco Siclari was born in Campo Calabro on 2 July 1940.
His passion for painting was born to him at the tender age of 5.
During the preschool period, he starts scribbling in the notebooks that his mom buys for him to do his homework. From 7 to eight years old, during the summer season, when with a small group of companions he went to bathe behind the port of Villa San Giovanni (a town in the province of Reggio Calabria), he asked his friends to pass in front of a studio of a painter, failing which he joined his friends. If the painter was present he would stop to admire him until his friends returned from the beach.
In 1952 he moved with his family to Piedmont, on the outskirts of Turin. From an early age, he had an innate passion for painting. He has always drawn, then moved on to ink, tempera, and watercolor. The oil was inaccessible, the materials cost too much. Francesco was well aware of the sacrifices that the family made to keep him at his studies and I never dared ask for a lira for the purchase of oil paints. One day, July 2, 1961, was his birthday. his brother Domenico gives him 10,000 lire. Immediately Francesco goes to Turin, goes to the `Garignani Belle Arti` shop in Via Lagrange, the destination of sporadic visits...

He initially undertook studies at the classical high school and then moved on to the technical commercial institute and graduated as an accountant

Francesco Siclari thus began the exhibition activity with group exhibitions and later with personal exhibitions in Italy and in the world.
The great passion for painting has grown over the years and has seen Francesco Siclari create many works, many of which have been exhibited in the most prestigious art galleries in the world, for example:
in 2011 at the THUILLIER Gallery in Paris;
in 2012 at the CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE, Paris,
in 2012 at the ESART Gallery, Barcelona, ​​
at the PINNA Gallery, Berlin,
at the ART ET AMICITIE Gallery, Amsterdam,
at the BROADWAY ART GALLERY, Global Project 2012, New York,
in 2013 at the First INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE D ' ARTE, Palermo,
at the BROADWAY GALLERY, New York,
at the CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE, Rome, etc.)
and as many works have been winners in the countless competitions in which the artist has participated, enjoying great success, awards, and career prizes at an international level.
The artist continues to work at his art studio located in Brandizzo (Turin) - Italy.